Hi,
I just played a bit with a few dummy VMs.
If you keep the default of 60GB then it creates 16 disk slices.
if you use the 60 GB as default and then resize the disk to 64GB before booting, you already get 18 disk slices.
However if you delete the 60GB disk.. then add back a new disk at 64GB.. it is indeed 17 disk slices.
The log file is useful as it has this line:
2022-06-07T19:11:10.310Z In(05) vmx DISK: OPEN '/Users/alex/Virtual Machines.localized/Win11.vmwarevm/Virtual Disk.vmdk' Geo (8354/255/63) BIOS Geo (0/0/0)
The geometrics there tell me the size of the disk.
When looking at the 64GB disk I just created, then it has the following lines in the descriptor file:
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "8354"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
Looks like that matched!
I'll attach the descriptor file for you so you can use that.
With a tiny bit of luck it is what was needed.
Then you'll only have to take care of the .vmx (& remove the other files I mentioned)
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Wil
